Marladaptive Schema Summary And Analysis

Revised, comprehensive definition of an early maladaptive schema provides that it is: “a broad, pervasive theme or pattern comprised of memories, emotions, cognitions, and bodily sensations regarding oneself and one’s relationships with others developed during childhood or adolescence elaborated throughout one’s lifetime and dysfunctional to a significant degree” (Young, Klosko, Weishaar, 2003, pp. 7). These self-defeating and cognitive patterns begin early in our development, caused by noxious and harmful experiences and they are repeated throughout childhood and adolescence to adultery. Although not all schemas have trauma as their origin, all of them are destructive for an individual. Rafaeli, Bernstein and Young (2011) emphasize that,
Young, Klosko and Weishaar (2003) distinguish also between conditional and unconditional schemas. Conditional schemas (subjugation, self-sacrifice, approval-seeking/recognition-seeking, emotional inhibition, and unrelenting standards/hypercriticalness) develop later than unconditional ones and often as attempts to get relief from the unconditional schemas. Conditional schemas are secondary, as they form in response to